To follow up on my previous article, Guide to Testing Automation with Robot Framework, I will go into more detail about the overall process of writing automated Robot Framework test cases and how to track automation in Jira using Xray. Test automation may seem hard, but it gets easier with the right tools and an open and helpful community like the one surrounding Robot Framework. If your team is using Jira, you can easily integrate testing results coming from the CI/CD pipeline.

Robot Framework is a generic open-source automation framework for acceptance testing, acceptance test-driven development (ATDD), and robotic process automation (RPA). Robot Framework allows testers to easily write automated test scripts using a keyword-driven testing approach. Teams using Jira and Xray can easily integrate testing results coming from the CI/CD pipeline. This provides a lean and scalable test automation process.

Behaviour-driven development, also called BDD, is a methodology that involves developing software through examples and provides collaboration between different stakeholders on the team. Stakeholders on a SDLC team are a mixture of technical and non-technical people. BDD encourages all team members to work closely using a common, non-technical language to set the expectations and behavior of a feature. Because of BDD, they share a common understanding of the work that they have to deliver.